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In the film series, fauns are distinct from satyrs, which are more goat-like in form. In Lolita, the protagonist is attracted to pubescent girls whom he dubs "nymphets"; "faunlets" are the male equivalent. In the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre, it is related how fauns befriend and take a mathematician to meet Pan.
Articles relating to fauns and their depictions. They were half-human and half-goat mythological creatures, appearing in Greek and Roman mythology.Originally fauns of Roman mythology were spirits of rustic places, lesser versions of their chief, the god Faunus.
The Pastoral Symphony section of Disney's Fantasia features baby Satyrs, sometimes called Fauns. In Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth, a young girl encounters a faun at the entrance to a magical kingdom. He gives her three challenges to determine if she is the long-lost princess of the Underworld.
Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra-headed Egyptian Goddess. Sirin – Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl's body. Sobek – The crocodile-headed Egyptian God.
Faunus depicted as King of Latium (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493) Image of Faunus taken at the Fountain of Neptune in Florence, Italy.Sculpture by Bartolomeo Ammanati. In fable Faunus appears as an old king of Latium, grandson of Saturnus, son of Picus, and father of Latinus by the nymph Marica (who was also sometimes Faunus' mother).
She is also known as Wise Girl to her boyfriend, Percy Jackson. She has an extensive paternal family including Magnus Chase. She appears in The Lightning Thief , The Sea of Monsters , The Titan's Curse , The Battle of the Labyrinth , The Last Olympian , The Lost Hero , The Demigod Diaries , The Mark of Athena , The House of Hades and The Blood ...
The life-size [1] ancient but much restored marble statue known as the Barberini Faun, Fauno Barberini or Drunken Satyr is now in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany. A faun is the Roman equivalent of a Greek satyr. In Greek mythology, satyrs were human-like male woodland spirits with several animal features, often a goat-like tail, hooves, ears ...
Faun – Humanoid beings with the horns and lower bodies of goats. Fetch –(Irish) an exact, spectral double of a living human; can appear as an omen. Fext – (Slavic) Undead warriors who can only be killed with bullets made of glass; Finmen – (Scottish) Mermaid like beings from Orkney lore.